3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

DESCRIPTION: This article first appeared in Sustainable Investment: [link]. Sustainability disclosure and client demand is fundamentally changing how fund management teams operate. For Article 9 funds, investment teams rarely get away with outsourcing such activity. By Ian Povey-Hall. SOURCE: Acre. Here's how.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 22, 2023

The amount of these pension funds’ actual investments labelled as “sustainable” rose to $276 billion in 2021, up from just $163 billion a year earlier. The dashboard shows that sustainable investments composed nearly 13% of the pension funds’ total assets of $2.2 trillion, versus just 7% of $2.1

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Chris Hall

JULY 3, 2024

Fidelity International has made revisions to its sustainable investing framework to adjust to a changing ESG regulatory landscape, aiming to provide investors with greater transparency on its funds. The post Fidelity Confirms Sustainable Investing Framework Shift appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The real question is, are the world’s banks ready to fund the development of renewable technologies at scale, and updating all the infrastructure in between? However, there is always room for improvement, even among these leaders, and especially when it comes to disclosing specifics in their sustainable financing commitments.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The speech – accompanied by an official backgrounder on the new sustainable investing guidelines – included two main themes: progress on a green labelling taxonomy and movement to formalize corporate climate disclosures for major companies in federal law. Gas cannot be transitioned.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Industry bodies align on key sustainable finance-related definitions to offer end-users greater “consistency and clarity”. Each definition includes a detailed explanation, a list of definitions from organisations that served as the primary inputs, and additional guidance for utilising these definitions in practice.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Sustainable Index and EFT methodology enables index and ETF providers to build, define and/or market products that fall within the European Union’s definition of Sustainable Investment, outlined in Article 2(17) of the SFDR.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“One key benefit of transition funds is that they have huge flexibility and a wide variety of approaches, allowing for diverse strategies that target different sectors, regions or stages of the decarbonisation journey,” Rumi Mahmood, Research Director at the MSCI Sustainability Institute, tells ESG Investor.

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Jon Hale

DECEMBER 10, 2021

End of Week Notes Spelling out terms and clarifying the scope of the field will produce better outcomes This was the year that sustainable investing became truly entrenched in the investment world. Assets continued to move into sustainable funds. include sustainable funds in retirement plans. It is not activism.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Incorporating Gender Diversity Into Investment Portfolios. Just as getting qualified women into the C-suite and the boardroom, female ownership and developing policies supporting diversity are important, there are other dimensions of gender equality that motivated investors can also support. 4, 2021, [link]. 5 "The Percentage of U.S.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 14, 2022

We had developed a strong methodology of research and engagement with companies, regulators and governments for work on a range of issues. For example, we developed a significant investor presence on issues of forest land management. The role of investors in improving access to verifiable information is also critical.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

ASIFMA is a trade association that supports the development of capital markets throughout APAC. Kwan joined the association in 2019 to help asset managers in the region deal with the increasing amount of sustainability-related requirements they are facing from regulators. But Kwan remains optimistic.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Investors have been in limbo for six months about the future of the regulation, which provides guidelines on the disclosures required of green investment vehicles. InfluenceMap also reported that Article 8 funds had cumulatively invested 43.8 billion (US$46 billion) in fossil fuel companies compared to 39.4

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Chris Hall

MARCH 12, 2025

Hortense Bioy, Head of Sustainable Investing at Morningstar Sustainalytics, told ESG Investor that most of these name changes will take place over the next month. SDG [UN Sustainable Development Goals] funds could be considered as impact funds, even though in reality they only have to meet sustainability criteria, said Bioy.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

RIA CEO Pat Fletcher sees this adjustment as a welcome development. . The growing trend to reclassify RI assets is happening around the world as regulators become more conscious of potential greenwashing and move against asset managers who cannot substantiate their responsible or sustainable investment claims. .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The CISL report acknowledges that there is no universal definition of what constitutes an engagement. However, according to the reports findings, only 6% of environmental and social proposals are successful, suggesting that shareholder voting has only limited influence in the pivot towards sustainable investment.

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2024

The document also includes recommendations aimed at establishing the EU Taxonomy as the sole reference point to be used to assess and measure sustainability performance, noting that the SFDR – which predates the Taxonomy – provides its own, more flexible, definition of sustainable investments.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The disclosure rules introduced under SFDR “fall short” of establishing a clear definition of an ESG fund or providing a formal labelling regime with minimum criteria, Mazzacurati added. In September, the European Commission published its much anticipated consultation on SFDR.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Last year, the FCA commissioned the International Capital Market Association and the International Regulatory Strategy Group to develop a voluntary code of conduct for ESG ratings providers. Grey area The exact scope of the UK’s regulatory regime is still yet to be wholly defined.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Difficulties in definition continue to thwart efforts to demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable investments. Sustainable fund flows attracted US$37 billion of net new money in Q4 2022, with global sustainable fund assets reaching a total of US$2.5

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ESG Today

JUNE 19, 2024

Switzerland’s Federal Council announced today that it will hold off on regulating greenwashing in the financial sector, allowing instead for the industry to monitor itself, following progress made by the sector’s associations in developing and implementing self-regulatory provisions.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

It is definitely something I will keep my eyes on. Investments Leadership Development Program at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, U.S. Many have cited the past year as an inflection point for sustainable investing. Gabrielle Xu. Finance is essential for advancing a clean, more just economy.

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3BL Media

MAY 22, 2024

Kate Mead | Investment Strategist—Equity Business Development Amelia Sexton, CFA | Director of ESG Strategy & Operations—Client Group Active management can help investors address some of the especially tricky issues in sustainable equity portfolios. As a result, the largest weights aren’t necessarily the best opportunities.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Market participants flag importance of double materiality to enhance Article 8/9 definition alignment, stress need to recognise transition strategies. Risk of uncertainty French asset manager Mirova’s response said the current definition of Article 8 products is “too broad”, while the definition of Article 9 is “too narrow”.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In its report , published last week, the PSF proposed changes to ease the compliance burden of the EUs taxonomy reporting rules and enhance their coherency with other pieces of sustainability regulation. The taxonomy, which came into effect in 2022, outlines economic activities that can be considered as sustainable across EU member states.

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ESG Today

JUNE 5, 2023

Alongside the issuance of the reports, the ESAs established a working definition of greenwashing, describing it as: “A practice where sustainability-related statements, declarations, actions, or communications do not clearly and fairly reflect the underlying sustainability profile of an entity, a financial product, or financial services.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

Issues flagged by the regulators included the need to maintain consistency with other global sustainability reporting standards, and improved definitions to help reporters assess materiality. Ross added: “These standards will increase the consistency and quality of information flowing through the sustainable investment value chain.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The regulator said that while the growth in investor interest in sustainable investments over the past several years “boded favourably for the EU’s ambition,” recent developments have raised concerns about the continued mobilization of private capital to finance the transition, particularly noting political pressure in the U.S.,

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Chris Hall

APRIL 25, 2023

Further, funds with a carbon reduction objective under Article 9 can be actively managed and don’t have to passively track EU PABs/CTBs. Further, funds with a carbon reduction objective under Article 9 can be actively managed and don’t have to passively track EU PABs/CTBs.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Taxonomies define economic activities aligned with sustainability goals across multiple sectors and provide guidance to corporates and investors with an aim to mitigate greenwashing. Despite the current drawbacks to the EU model, significant investments in taxonomy-aligned sustainable investments have taken place, notes Vandermosten.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This increase is a major development for the evolving ESG market. trillion, even more investment is needed. She cited the massive growth of ESG initiatives as a great achievement but was wary of the lack of democratized data that can clearly define certain ESG investments as sustainable. SOURCE: Nasdaq, Inc.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

Article 8 funds, sometimes known as ‘light green’ are financial products that promote “environmental and/or social characteristics”, provided that companies in which the investments are made follow good governance practices. The regulation has “spurred product development and innovation”, it says. What impact has SFDR had?

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

Originally published on bloomberg.com Green finance regulatory developments The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) galvanized the energy around the global green finance agenda, setting the stage for a busy 2024 of green-related rulemaking and policy guidance for the financial services sector. degree celsius (1.5°C)

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The development process also included feedback and input from others with lived experience who represent the target populations prioritized by the rating. Menarco Development Corporation. Sustainable Investment Group LLC (SIG) - Green Building Holdings. Full Circle Design Services. Ivanhoé Cambridge. M Moser Associates.

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Richard Matthews

APRIL 20, 2022

Sustainable economies like these can help us to realize the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This blend of free markets and state control is the dominant economic system in the vast majority of developed nations in the world today. However, it remains focused on profit maximization.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2024

ESMA has now declared that era to be over, with new guidelines and thresholds including a minimum of 80% of investments to meet funds’ environmental or social characteristics, or sustainable investment objectives.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 31, 2023

DWS whistle-blower Desiree Fixler has criticised European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) for not reaching out to her regarding their investigation into greenwashing in sustainable investment, while other consultation responses focused on ESG rating agencies, harmonisation, and definitional nuances of greenwashing.

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